Paulo Coelho-Like The Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections.
Alongside a load of history books on the military revolution, Martin Luther and Mexican Photography for my essays

choke by chuck p.

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hammet - the glass key

Dune by Frank Herbert & The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

Truman by David McCullough
Although I've not gotten too far into the book yet, I'm finding that I don't really like Harry S. Truman's character that much, nor that of his wife. She seems like she was a total bitch. But I felt the need to read it, since our local diner has "The Harry Truman Booth", where Harry and Bess sat and ate on a stop through town back in the 50s. Stephen and I try to sit there whenever we go eat at the diner.

I just finished a bio by the same author written about John Adams, and was overwhelmed by reading of his tireless devotion to his country, despite the mistake of the anti-sedition act.

I've also been reading a lot of Bill Bryson's travel books lately. He's such a good writer and I recommend him for a good and entertaining read.

And just finished "Spook" by Mary Roach, which was pretty good, although she tries too hard sometimes to be funny. Sometimes she's right on the mark, but at moments it just feels like she's overreaching. I'm going to see if I can find her book "Stiff" next.

Adventures in Consciousness & Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts.

I'm reading them again, b/c I've changed, & I learn more each time I study the Seth material.

Lipstick Jungle - Candace Bushnell

Peter Pan- I CANNOT FINISH THIS BOOK! I read Anna Karenina in just 3 weeks before I started this, and Peter Pan is about 1/8 as big and it's taken at least a month

liquor - poppy z brite

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

Good book!

I'm currently reading Malcolm X's autobiography.

Has anyone here read "The Gulag Archipaelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I read a lot, but that book is possibly the last one that I read that really impacted me. Seriously, if you haven't read it, and you happen across it, buy/borrow/steal it.

lolita - vladmir nabokov

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

readings on to kill a mockingbird.


i thought it was to kill a mockingbird...but...it's not. but i'm enjoying it anways, i've read tkam quite a few times. so..it's all good.

PAPA HEMINGWAY by A. E. Hoetchner

i am reading it before I actually read any Hemingway. Haven't touched the stuff, yet. But it is a guy who basically: was assigned to interview Hemingway about "the future of literature" and ended up forming a partnership, following him around with a tape recorder (a "transistor" he calls it -- it is the 1949+ years) and becoming a best friend. Hemingway doesn't seem larger than life, he seems truly alive. It's cool reading -- it's the first book that has held my attention in a while. It's like having people with me, being able to eavesdrop.

"L'Ingénu" by Voltaire, "Existentialism Is A Humanism" by Sartre, and "The Story Of O".

girl with a pearl earring

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don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up

Dostojewski-white nights

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Next time that we have sex, just pretend that I'm Ed Meese.

I just finished death of a salesman. it only took me about 2-3 months.

I have volume 1 and I pick it up from time to time. Last time I think I got to around page 40 before I left it. I would really like to get my act together and read the whole thing.

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping


From Publishers Weekly
If you've ever contemplated cutting down on your consumerism but couldn't bring yourself to do it, Levine's volume allows you to witness and learn from this drastic experiment without going through the withdrawal yourself. Since giving up shopping entirely is impossible in North America (buying food requires money), the most interesting aspect of Levine's adventure is the process of defining necessity. High-speed Internet access, Q-tips and any soap fancier than Ivory, for example, are all ruled out as luxuries. With chapters divided by month, the book witnesses Levine's journey from enthusiastic experimenter in January to a still game but weary participant by the fall, as favorite luxuries run out and clothes become shabbier. As Levine trades in movies and restaurants for the public library system and dinner parties at home, she is forced to reflect on not only the personal indulgences she's become used to but also their place in defining her social space. Since this book is about exploring consumerism rather than economizing (although she does manage to save $8,000 by the end of the year), Levine investigates several anticonsumer movements—she joins her local Voluntary Simplicity group, participates in Buy Nothing Day and consults experts on issues of consumerism and conservation. Yet the most insightful aspect is Levine's account of her own struggle to keep down her day-to-day consumption of goods and to define the fine line between need and want. (Mar.)
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